Browse Items (5 total)

Photo of two separate portrait photographs of Gwendolyn S. Tolliver as a young woman in her graduation cap and gown.

Gwendolyn made headlines in 1962 when she became the first African American student to integrate all-white Central High School in…

Portrait photograph of Alberta Byrd (Tolliver) Nickens, of Woodstock, as a young woman.

Her parents were Theodore and Mabel (Byrd) Tolliver of Woodstock. In the 1930 census, she was listed as a 4-year old boy, “Albert”, the youngest of four…

Patricia Lee (Tolliver) Corley as a young girl with a bow in her hair and seated on the edge of a chair.

Patricia was born in Harrisonburg, the oldest daughter of
Robert Lee Tolliver and Esterlean Ralls (Butler) Tolliver.

In the 1950 census,…

Theodore Lloyd Tolliver, III, and his younger sister, Shirley Ann Tolliver, are posed together on a chair as young children.

They were the two oldest children of Theodore Robert "Jim" Tolliver, Jr. (1920-2010) and Mary Jane "Janie" Spinner…

Photograph showing Mary Jane "Janie" (Spinner) Tolliver, originally of Mount Jackson Virginia.

Janie was the daughter of Albert and Mattie Spinner.

She married Theodore "Jim" Tolliver Jr. They are both buried in Woodstock's Riverview…